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3 I er THAT iKiENit Baby Remarkable Evidences of Deep Personal Interest in the New Plan of Science to Create a Better and Finer Race Mr. F. F. Wylie, Boston. Miss Della L—, New York. C HARMING young women and handsome men show an increasing desire to marry in accord ance with the great aim of eugenic science, which is to produce a better race. The announcement has already been made in these columns that a committee of leading doctors and so cial workers, represented by the Medical Review of Reviews of New York, has offered prizes to the ideal eugenic man and woman. A prize of $500 will be given to the ideal man and woman when they marry and a second prize of $500 when their first child is born. This newspaper will be pleased to receive photo graphs from any of its men and women readers who wish to compete for these prizes. A few of the many photographs already sent in are printed on this page. In order to avoid inconvenient publicity, the full names of the women candidates are not printed. Candidates should state their general physical measurements, weight, height, age, condition of health, health of their parents and grandparents. The can didates should be young and perfectly healthy. Photo graphs and information will be turned over to the committee of scientists who will select the successful candidates and award the prizes. The committee regrets that it is impossible to re turn any photographs. The object of eugenic science is to lead men and women to marry only those of good health and sound ancestry, in order that the feeble-minded and sickly people who now burden society may cease to exist in future generations. A great mass of facts has now been collected, upon which the new eugenic science is based. A very interesting object lesson in eugenics, involv ing the most important families in history and the ‘breeding of a favorite domestic animal, is furnished by comparing “the Hapsburg lip’’ and the undershot lower jaw of the English bulldog. This is a lesson largely in mistakes to avoid. Both peculiarities are similar in appearance, both originated in a defect that was mistakenly admired and both have been perpetuated in the same way, i. e.. by inbreeding. The Hapsburg lip is the most remarkable and famous hereditary peculiarity in the world. It is found in nearly everybody belonging to the imperial family of Austria and the royal house of Spain. It has been seen in the monarohs of leading countries of Europe for about six hundred years. A history of the Hapsburg lip would be a history of Europe for six centuries. Owing to the frequency of marriages be tween the Hapsburgs and the ancient French house of Bourbon, the Hapsburg lip is almost as common among the Bourbons as among the family that first produced it. The Bourbons have also their own hereditary peculiarity, "the Bourbon nose,’’ which has already been referred to here. The Hapsburg peculiarity is a large, swollen pro jecting underlip. It is usually associated, with a long abnormally heavy and prominent lower jaw, which helps to make the lip more conspicuous. The first appearance of the lip, according to his tory, was in a princess named Cymburga, who was born in the latter part of the fourteenth century, and married Ernest, Duke of Austria, who became the ancestor of all the imperial Hapsburgs. Frederick Adams Woods, instructor in the Harvard Medical School, who has written a very interesting work called “Heredity in Royalty,” has tabulated the names of thirty members of the imperial house of Austria, Twenty-three members of the royal family of Spain and.nine members of other royal houses who have possessed the Hapsburg lip. He gives authentic portraits of all of them in proof of his statement. He traces it through eighteen generations. Through the marriage of (Philip the Handsome, of Austria, and the mad Joanna, of Spain, daughter of Queen Isabella, the patron of Columbus, the Spanish dominions fell to the House of Austria. The old Spanish house of Leon and Castile then became ex tinct in the male line and the child of this marriage became Emperor of Germany and King of Spain, with all the vast American and Asiatic possessions of the latter country. This child was the famous Emperor Charles V., who reigned from 1516 to 1556. He possessed the Haps burg lip in a very marked degree. He married Isa bella of Portugal, who was closely related to him. Her mother was a sister of the mad Joanna and grand daughter of John, the imbecile, and Isabella, the in sane. The Emperor Charles V., although a man of considerable ability, became a melancholiac toward the end of his reign and abdicated his vast possessions. The Hapsburg lip and the mental defects that ac companied it were multiplied and intensified by the constant intermarriage of members of the family. The Hapsburgs were proud of the lip and they w'ere pleased to contract marriages that would perpetuate it. Here we see a close parallel between the.history of the Hapsburg lip and the undershot jaw of the English bulldog. Breeders have persistently bred from dogs of this exaggerated type because it had come into fashion, although the undershot jaw is really a mark of degeneracy from the original bulldog breed. In the same way the Hapsburgs excited a false kind of admiration for their peculiar lip and con tinued to reproduce it, although it is a mark of the physical and mental degeneracy of the race. We know that the Spanish Hapsburgs rapidly de generated after the time of Charles V.. while the country lost its power and possessions. The branch that occupied the Austrian throne was but little less remarkable for feeble-minded rulers. The Spanish kings of the eighteenth century became mere caricatures of humanity, strange, withered crea tures, who wore splendid clothes and gibbered aim lessly. The last king of the direct Hapsburg line was Charles II., who died in 1700. Very appropriately he had the most conspicuous Hapsburg lip and undershot jaw of the whole line. The historian Buckle, in hia “History of Civilization,” says of him: “His general appearance was absolutely revolting and was that of a drivelling idiot. To an enormous mouth he added a nether lip protruding so hideously Miss Estelle M—, Monroe, La. Miss Adda Z—, Carlisle, Pa. Curious Parallel Drawn by Eugenic Science Between the Bulldog’s Jaw and “ the Hapsburg Lip.” Mis-j-MapthaW- CantoinOhio. mm Copyright, 1913, by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved. First Recorded Bulldog with Un dershot Jaw. From a Print of 1625. Emperor Charles V, Most Fa mous Monarch with the Hapsburg Lip. His Descendant, Charles II of Spain, Who Died in 1700, Had an Exaggerated Hapsburg Lip. His Living Descendant, King Alfonso XIII, Who Shows the Lip Very Plainly. that his teeth could never meet and he was unable to masticate his food.” Charles’s daughter married the grandson of Louis XIV. of France, and this grandson became King of Spain as Philip V. This marriage started the Bourbon- Hapsburg line in Spain. It also started what Pro fessor Woods calls “the frightful Bourbon-Hapsburg psycho-neurosis.” The Bourbon-Hapsburgs showed the old lip and the same mental feebleness. Their in capacity during the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and the revolt of their American colonies is historic. The present King Alfonso XIII, of Spain, shows the Hapsburg lip in an extraordinary degree. He is a Bourbon-Hapsburg on his father’s side and a Haps burg on his mother’s side. Nearly all his immediate ancestors have shown the family defects In a marked degree. His grandmother, Queen Isabella, was no torious and his father, Alfonso XII., was a dissipated wreck. Alfonso’s apparently good character must be re garded as the result of an improved environment and a good mother’s influence. Nevertheless, the family defects have descended to his poor children in a pain ful degree. Two of them, as the whole world now knows, are deaf. They also have the Hapsburg lip. King Alfonso evidently sought to eliminate the fam ily defects by marrying a wife of fine physique. Queen Victoria’s grandfather, a prince of Hesse, married a girl of sound plebeian German stock. Queen Victoria shows all the evidence of this sound stock in her ap pearance. Nevertheless, her heredity cannot be con sidered entirely sound, as she is partly descended from the Hanoverian Guelphs and the ruling family of Hesse, who have shown many grave defects and frequent cases of insanity. In union with a husband of very defective ancestry, these defects are liable to crop out. To the sound German element in Queen Victoria’s ancestry must be attributed the fact that three of her five children are well and strong. Eugenie science teaches that if the kings of Spain would marry wives of perfectly sound ancestry for two or three generations to come, the terrible family weaknesses would entirely disappear. Now we come to the extraordinary parallel between the bulldog jaw and the Hapsburg lip. In old days when bull baiting was a favorite public amusement, there existed a very powerful heavy-jawed race of dogs used in fighting the bulls. A bulldog of this kind may be compared to the early Hapsburg, who was known as “Ernest the Ironjawed.” Frequently a pup or two in a litter of this old breed would be horn with lower teeth and jaw projecting beyond the upper. This was really a mark of degeneracy, like cleft palate. About the time bull baiting ceased to be a popular amusement, the type of bulldog with undershot jaw became fashionable as pets in England. The breeders raised pups only from these degenerate specimens, killing the good pups or letting them run loose, and thus created the type we call the English bulldog. Scientists reject the popular idea that this type could have been created artificially by pushing in the noses of the pups. The original type of bulldog is still preserved in the French breed, called the “dogue de Bordeaux.” This animal is more powerful and intelligent than the Eng lish bulldog. It is Interesting to note that in the Bordeaux breed a pup is frequently born .with an undershot jaw, but in this case it is considered a fault. Professor V. Galippe, of the French Academy of Medicine, who has made a profound study of the bull dog jaw and the degeneracy of royal families, has dis covered the oldest known picture of a bulldog with the undershot jaw. It bears the date 1625 and was made at Burgos. Spain. Curious to say this was about the time the Spanish Hapsburgs were showing signs of great degeneracy. Many people naturally admire the English bulldog for Its courage, tenacity and good, reliable temper. Nevertheless, there is abundant, evidence that Its extraordinary peculiarities are marks of degeneracy. Owing to the undershot jaw the teeth become loose and fall out prematurely. The bulldog has more delicate health and more What the Stars Promise for December T HE December lunation is one that has much to do with governments, muni cipal, national and international. The royal sign Leo rises, which bespeaks prestige for Washington, the City Hail, and executive chambers in the east, although the convening of Congress and of various legislatures will bring all sorts of initial obstruction. Commit tees and chairmanships are confronted with , problems that do not right themselves till the legislative machinery is well under way. A new regime must necessarily take time to ad just itseK to incoming developments, and Jupiter now in the seat of the high and mighty is its instrument of perfectionruent. But temporarily old Saturn sits rather ominously in this quarter of the monthly chart, and the membership of same will be depleted by one or more prominent deaths, or by absence through illness. The Navy benefits, and the battleship programme looks very encouraging. Jupiter ruling, this likewise protects the public health, except in a few instances of peculiar hospital cases. A most disturbed condition surrounds the hospital anl penal branches of the public service. Investigations will dis close some interesting cases of corruption in these departments. Sudden reactions in the stock market will mark the period, at times of a panicky nature, again merely sagging and depressive. Lower quotations will prove the rule, and operators would best get under cover. The military branch of the government is under a cloud, with a woeful condition of de lay and inefficiency attaching thereto. Uranus disturbs diplomatic relationships, as will be attested by at least one critical instance. The Mexican situation grows more complex. There is a succession of major aspects in this month, of the nature of blizzard breeders in northern latitudes, and of excessive rains and freshets in the southern territory. This will be noted particularly near the 7th and between the 16th and 23rd. About the 20th there will also be atmospheric disturbances. The belligerent Mars occupies the eastern angle for the Middle States, tending much to labor troubles near the 85th parallel. At lanta, Louisville and Cincinnati will feel this. But schools and educational institutions will benefit, and unusual dramatic interest is in evidence. The latter extends all the way from Chicago to New Orleans and adjacent territory. Saturn rises on the western coast, tem porarily obstructive to public movements, and will produce some difficulties in the World’s Fair preparations. The money inter tests are jeopardized for that locality, and peculations of serious nature will come to the surface Health is much benefited and the w The Chart of the Heavens for December as In dicated for New York City and Vicinity. Similar Charts Were Made for Atlanta, Georgia, and San Francisco, California, in Preparing This Nation-Wide Forecast. Pacific squadron, if called into active service, will give a good account of itself. A State or municipal executive will go to his last % account. Events to be looked for on or about certain dates are as follows: December 7.—The death of a legislator or diplomat; unpleasant obstacles in the latter . respect. Moon at perigee on the equator brings greatly lowered temperature, with severe snow storms between this and the 14th. A prominent thespian dies in tlijd period. December 9.—A diplomatic controversy be tween this and the 13th, also a peculiar rev elation in society circles. Market restless and erratic, with marked depression on the 13th. December 14.—Newspapers will teem with accounts of official corruption. December 16-19.—A period of depression atmospherically and as regards the body politic. The blizzard conditions previously mentioned in active manifestation. The final curtain rings down upon a prominent actress near the 19th. This period involves much excitement in financial circles. December 23.—A Christmas snow will make things merry for Santa Claus. December 26-29.—A building disaster is due at this time; weather fine and clear. People born during the following periods will come under a benefic transit of Jupiter during December, and will note a general improvement in their affairs: 1864 to 1866, inclusive, Winter of 1868, Summer of 186!*, Winter and Spring of 1870, 1873 and 1874, Fall of 1881, any time during 1888 and 1893, Fall of 1897, and Fall of 1905; likewise for those born between the 9th and 18th oi January, March, May, September or Novem ber of any year. Caution should be the watchword for the following natives: Fall of 1861, Spring and Summer of 1862, the entire year of 1869. Summer of 1870, Winter of 1871 and 1877. Summer of 1884, Winter of 1885, 1891 and 1899, Summer of 1906, Winter of 1907, and the immediate present. If born on the 24th or 25th of January or April, or on the 27th or 29th of July or October, a crisis in business or domestic affairs is imminent, and changes, journeys, or initial moves should be avoided. December does not afford very good birth day anniversaries, especially if near the 7th (which indicates bereavement in the coming year of life). Losses or litigation may be ex pected if born near the 16th or 23rd. The 3rd, 6th, 10th, 21st, 29th and 31st are birth day anniversaries which contain excellent promises for the coming year of life. Suicidal tendencies mark those born about the 23rd, and early marriage is in store for the eligible born on the 5th. 6th. 12th, 21st or 29th. digestive troubles than ordinary dogs. The constant snuffling noise made by most bulldogs is a result of the malformation of the jaws and head. The poor dog is as badly off as a child with adenoids. All these facts are of great interest and importance to eugenic science. They show that a defect may follows the same hereditary course of development in dogs as in man. It is much easier to study dogs, be cause they do not live as long as men and it is easier to control their actions. Then the experience of King Alfonso is very in teresting as showing how far marriage with a wife of fine physique is likely to eliminate grave defects from the father’s heredity. The results cannot be re garded as altogether happy. Nevertheless, Professor C. B. Davenport, of the Carnegie Institution, would claim that the results strongly confirm his rule that the marriage of defectives with normal persons leads to a gradual elimination of the defects. He would probably regard Alfonso’s three normal children out of five as a victory for eugenic science. One of the most important points of dispute in eugenic science is involved here. There is much dis agreement among eugenists as to how the science should be applied in regulating marriages. Some hold EUGENIC MARRIAGE, P. O. BOX 208 new YORK city. W. Nordberg, Lynn, Mass- that we should aim merely to increase the proportion of normal persons by preventing the very unfit from reproducing themselves. Others hold that eugenics should aim to create higher types of humanity by mating the finest specimens of men and women with one another. In the project of the New York scientists, announced in these columns, the object is to create fine types of humanity by mating perfect men and women. AH who feel that they have beauty, talent and other fine qualities are now urged to transmit them to pos cerity and save them to the world. They are asked to do so under the vigilant eyes of science ana under conditions that will be extremely instructive to the whole world. All readers of this page—any man or any woman— who would like to be selected as the husband or the wife in the eugenic marriage may send in a photo graph, with name and address and brief description of their condition of health and such other facts as they may desire to state- This should be mailed to J.felNDAL.fcHINELANDEF? WlS',